Hannah Arendt
German-born Jewish political theorist who fled the Nazis in 1933. Her Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) analysed Nazism and Stalinism as novel forms of terror; her Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) introduced the concept of the 'banality of evil' — the idea that monstrous acts can be committed by ordinary bureaucrats without malicious intent.
- Lived: 1906 CE – 1975 CE
- Nationality: German-American
- Roles: philosopher, political theorist, writer
